Norman Finkelstein: No evidence Iran seeks nukes

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00:00You know, you have Benjamin Netanyahu in power for so long and seeming to bribe every challenge

00:07against him. His claim has been for years that Iran is very close to achieving a nuclear weapon.

00:16I mean, that's been going on for quite a while, that narrative. How have you regarded the

00:19evidence versus the claims? I'm not an expert in those fields. I can only quote what everybody

00:26else has said. Tulsi Gabbard, who's responsible for national intelligence, she said the evidence said

00:36no. The IAEA belatedly, the IAEA stated, the head of the IAEA stated that there was no concerted effort

00:50on Iran's side to create a nuclear weapon. So based on the available evidence, the answer

01:00seems to be there isn't evidence. I would say, in my opinion, Iran would be foolish not to acquire

01:13a nuclear weapon. So you have to assume that if that's my rational judgment, it's probably the

01:23rational judgment of many people in Iran as well.